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Ignite Minneapolis, as usual, rocked

If you’ve never been to Ignite Minneapolis (or similar Ignite events around the United States), you must.

This is how Ignite Minneapolis organizers describe the event format:

There is no topic or theme for Ignite; you can talk about virtually anything. All speakers get equal time and equal billing. All talks are 5 minutes. You create 20 slides, and we set them up to auto-advance every 15 seconds.

That is great for the audience members, who get introduced to lots of subjects without a big time investment, but scary for speakers because of the inflexible and unforgiving format (they have no control over the deck).